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Tag Name "Age" (7392)

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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
Virginia Woolf
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At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
Andrew Rannells
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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
Andrew O'Hagan
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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
Vita Sackville-West
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
Vita Sackville-West
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Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.
Gilbert Highet
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What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
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Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated. Yet we are not without signs of what the new might look like
Richard Tarnas
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My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
Jeff Gordon
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.
Vladimir Nabokov
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[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
Homer
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I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.
Vlastimil Hort
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It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
Voltaire
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Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Voltaire
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Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.
Voltaire
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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
Voltaire
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I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.
Parker Posey
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